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Originally Posted by hos
we aren't the global registration office for models.
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That is actually debatable.
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we are, in first case, helping other guys who like to know something about a specific model. and in reflection to this wish, something like "she is Samantha in Men Only Volume 93" is already enough (if it's prooved with available material).
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This comes down to the purpose of an id.
The most common reason is: finding more material about the model. In that sense, "Samantha in Men Only Volume 93" is an id (of sorts) if that info is new, and it is not if it was not. Should that close the thread though? I would say it should close the thread if Ms Samantha has a separate thread elsewhere in the forum, as this is also a place where extra info can go. If not, it is a useful piece of info, an id of sorts, possibly worth to be recognised in the HOF game (not that I care), but extra info may still come along and had nowhere else to go, so why not keep it open.
Another is: classifcation, i.e. future searchability, principal key of a database. What collectors use at home, in their private DBs, does not really matter here, but what does though is how well our search engine copes with it - e.g. creating a thread for French actress Monique Just is a bit of a problem as our search engine removes the word "just" from all searches.